Avatars

For many social media websites students need an avatar or a photo of themselves. Check your district policy about posting information about students online. There is a lot of discussion about this issue. For example, this point/counterpoint from the ISTE site.

You may wish to have students develop an avatar that they use on these sites to avoid using their photos. And it is fun to do! On Macintosh computers grab a screenshot of the area you want by: Command-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it as a file on the desktop On pcs, follow these instructions.

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